Guild Wars 2

Back in the original Guild Wars, we had places like Marhan’s Grotto and Shing Jea Monastery where lots of people would go to take a break and have conversations. LA hosts constant arguments and not much good banter in my server (Darkhaven), so I haven’t really found it as much of a good place to chat. Divinity’s Reach would be my next guess, but it doesn’t seem to get much conversation going either. Bear in mind I’ve been playing GW2 since beta, and I have yet to find something like this.

So my basic question is, do you know of a place in-game where lots of people hang out and have some good conversation?

RP wise mostly queendale where champ boar appears at the in (TC)

just to chill- out map chat (any server DR/LA) if you dont see any conversation try start one out.

/say : probably everywhere but it seems people is more comfortable talking in mapchat.

Well my home server’s /map chat is only active when somebody is trolling. The /say chat is dominated by the group circlejerk of 14 year olds yelling ‘’QUAGGAN FOO XD’‘. Divinities reach on TC is probably the best place I’ve found in game for chat, but even then the chatting is generally about video games/obscure animes and other stuff that not everybody can just jump into and talk.

I’ve been told numerous times that I’m logging in at the wrong times or, ‘’come to my server it’s different’’ but you can’t tell me that 5 min after reset is the wrong time. 30+ people waiting for a world boss to spawn and the chat is empty except for people asking if anybody is doing the pre.

So take that as you will. Even if we did have a place like Marhan’s Grotto from back in the day the community would make you cringe with half the stuff they type.

Me personally I think the community is just too different. GW1 people had thicker skin and you wouldn’t get banned for mouthing off in a PvP game. (usually). The GW2 community is like a cross between the reddit userbase and your elementary school playground. Psuedo intellectuals who won’t hesitate to tattle on you to the teacher (Anet).

But all negativity aside, I HAVE experienced a few good chats. The problem is after 11 months I can count off all the incidents on both hands.

The only place I see alot of talk going on is LA. That talk generally revolves around one of the following topics: Ranger balance, Thief balance, the existence of god, Religion, Politics or the servers current poor performance in WvW. But in all seriousness, if your looking to talk, most of my personal discussions are in /G chat or teamspeak. Maybe join an active guild with peeps who are social?